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GALLERY

Fireplace Relief & Statue
Fountain Religious
Table Small

CARVE & DESIGN

The baroque style
The Stone of Lecce
Figurative sculpture and statues
Decorative ornaments
Features for garden and landscape

Garden sculpture

 
FEATURES FOR
GARDEN AND LANDSCAPE
  
In one form or another, gardens have been with us since man first began to control and modify his enviroment.
As early as 1000 BC, the Egyptians were already designing and building their homes and gardens together as integrated units.
The Persians, the Arabs, and the Chinese enjoyed elaborate formal gardens. The Greeks where the ones who first introduced the garden to Europe after importing it from Persia and Media during the 3rd century BC right after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
After the fall of the Greece, it were the Romans who, during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, furthered the art of garden making. 
At the hight of the Roman Empire, Rome was surrounded by magnificent villas and opulent gardens while countless of grand country manors (villa rusticas) with their own gorgeous gardens dottet the entire spine of Italy from north to south. 

  

The Lecce Stone is a calcareous rock, that can be used in architecture and gardening. There are two main types of stone colou: The Light Yellow Stone, which is almost golden at the origin, but if the piece is placed outside, a natural process of stone ageing takes place which gives it a marvellous antique looking colour, and the Dark Gray Stone, which is harder, darker and more difficoult to carve.

decorative ornament

Stone garden ornament

We carve and realize for you:
Garden tables
Garden benches
Water fountains
Garden sculptures
Wall plaques & reliefs
Balustrades
Columns
Niches
Urns & planters
 

 

These two Amphoras were carved from the natural stone of Lecce. They measure (cm 110 x 70 x 50)  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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